Energy Project Manager

Arup; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A multi-disciplinary firm in Cape Town is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join their Energy Business. The position focuses on delivering complex projects and enhancing project management capabilities. Candidates should hold an engineering degree and have experience in the renewable energy sector. The role offers competitive benefits, including a salary package, medical aid, and ongoing training opportunities. Successful candidates will develop project plans, coordinate activities, and manage stakeholder relationships to ensure quality outcomes.

Benefits

Medical aid

Lasting retirement savings

Profit sharing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering is required.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, CEM, or equivalent are important.
• Experience in the renewable energy sector is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed project execution plans for successful delivery.
• Coordinate technical activities with organizational objectives.
• Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Cost management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree (advantageous)

Job description

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Arup is an independent multi–disciplinary firm of Designers, Planners, Engineers, Consultants and Technical Specialists, working across every aspect of today’s-built environment. Together we help our clients solve their most complex challenges – turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as we strive to find a better way and shape a better world.

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The Opportunity

Arup is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join their team within the Energy Business. As the business continues to grow, we are securing an increasing number of complex projects that require disciplined project management and effective stakeholder alignment. This role will enable our specialist technical teams to focus on their areas of expertise, while dedicated project management professionals take responsibility for delivering exceptional outcomes.

We aim to enhance our project management and project controls capability, offering clients comprehensive support alongside our technical owner’s engineering services. We are looking for project managers with broad, end-to-end project experience—including stakeholder engagement, human and integration management, scope, risk, cost, scheduling, procurement, communication, design, construction oversight, health & safety, quality, and environmental management.

This position can be based in Johannesburg or Cape Town.

Key Responsibilities

Develop detailed project execution plans to ensure successful project delivery. Collaborate closely with the Client and internal teams.

Coordinate and integrate technical activities to ensure alignment with organisational objectives. Ensure project deliverables meet design standards, regulatory requirements, environmental obligations, and permitting conditions.

Identify project risks and develop robust mitigation strategies. Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including government entities, communities, suppliers, contractors, and internal teams.

Ensure delivery of high-quality services and implement effective quality-control measures. Monitor, track, and report project progress to senior management and stakeholders.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is This Role Right for You?

We are looking for candidates with

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, (a master’s degree is advantageous).
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, CEM, SACPCMP, or equivalent/accredited credentials.
• Experience in the renewable energy sector, including wind, solar, transmission, and distribution projects within the built environment.
• Strong technical understanding of the energy sector.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

An environment that will give you freedom to design with a purpose, focus on your skills to deliver quality work to our clients, opportunity to learn and share knowledge openly. You will have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.

You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities and ongoing training through Arup university and other learning programmes.

Beyond a competitive guaranteed annual salary package, core benefits include medical aid and hospital gap cover, as well as provident fund covering retirement savings, life insurance and income protection in the event of disability. Core benefits form part of your guaranteed annual package.